DELAYED CABLES.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 7159, 6 September 1894, Page 3

DELAYED CABLES.

London, September 4. The Labor Congress now sitting at Norwioh represents 1,000,000 workers. Mr Tillet has given notice to propose that the Labor members of the House of Commone shall form an Eight Hour Party and Bit in opposition. Washington, September 4. Minnesota has been the theatre of devastation and ruin, and moet horrible scenes have occurred. No less than three hundred passengers by trains are missing Iα odo district over whioh the body of fire had swept, one hundred and thirty corpses were found within a spaoe of five aores. At Hinokley forty unfortunate people surrounded by flames took refuge in a waterhole, but the fire swept over its surface, and some were burned to death and others drowned. The train nnntioned in yesterday's cablegrams caught fira before it reached the swamp, and in the panic that ensued twelve people leaped out into the raging fire, and were killed. The oountiea of Kennebeo and Oarlton were denuded of villages. Thousands of people are oamping oat without *ood, and surrounded by charred oorpsea. '■. house or village in the path of the fire esoiped. The damage is roughly put at two million?.